Updated: June 2018 stats added
This is a National Statistics publication.
The monthly landings statistics will be released at 9.30am on the 4th Friday of each month, or the next working day if this is a bank holiday.
The Marine Management Organisation follows all Defra statistical policies.
You can access historic monthly statistics from the national archives or from the 2008 to 2013 spreadsheet.
Updated: Hornsea Two Offshore Wind Farm – Variation 1 added
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is involved in different nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs) in the English inshore and offshore, and Welsh offshore areas under the Planning Act 2008. The Planning Inspectorate (PINS) examine these applications and provide recommendations to the Secretary of State.
MMO acts as a:
If a development consent order (DCO) is granted, MMO is responsible for enforcing, post-consent monitoring, varying, suspending, and revoking any deemed marine licence(s) as part of the DCO.
The MMO is able to vary a DML in accordance with section 72 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009. Requests to vary a DML should be submitted in writing to MMO and should include:
Variations to DMLs are chargeable and further guidance on fees is available.
The National Policy Statement for Ports provides the framework for decisions taken by the Secretary of State.
The 6 National Policy Statements for Energy Infrastructure apply to NSIPs in England and Wales, including territorial waters and to any offshore renewable energy zone.
Updated: UK sea fisheries annual statistics report 2016 added
The publications include information on:
UK Sea Fisheries Statistics archive (pre-2012) is available online.
United Kingdom Sea Fisheries Statistics and its subsidiary publications, The UK Fishing Industry: Structure and Activity and The UK Fishing Industry: Landings adhere to the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. More information, as well as uses of the statistics.
The 2009 edition of United Kingdom Sea Fisheries Statistics introduces a number of changes to the format, quality and content of the publication based on user consultation that took place in February 2010.
Information relating specifically to the 2009 version of United Kingdom Sea Fisheries Statistics is provided. This document includes changes based on the user consultation.
This table provides a list of species included in United Kingdom Sea Fisheries Statistics. Species are classified by group. The species code and Latin name are also provided. Where there is a group title, the species included within the group are listed. For example, ‘Oysters’ is a group title used in UK Sea Fisheries Statistics and species included in this group are:
| Species | Latin name |
|---|---|
| Oysters | Ostrea spp |
| Native Oysters | Ostrea edulis |
| Pacific Oysters | Crassostrea gigas |
| Portuguese Oysters | Crassostrea spp |
The Marine Management Organisation follows all Defra statistical policies.
Updated: Figures updated
It was decided that days at sea limits will be set for vessels operating in this area for the full 2018 year. This will be enforced via a licence variation. The limit set out below will be applicable to all over 15 metre vessels with a shellfish entitlement operating in area VII and targeting crabs under the Western Waters regime.
The MMO will actively monitor days at sea uptake by vessels and review discussions will take place later in 2018 to evaluate uptake to date and discuss the management approach for the remainder of 2018.
If the UK looks like it will exceed effort limits prior to 31 December 2018 as set by the Commission, then fisheries administrations will be required to close the area VII crab fishery to over 15 metre vessels for the remainder of the year in line with the Western Waters regime.
The final effort uptake for the 2017 management year is available here.
The allocation of days from 00.01 hours on 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018 is 240 days.
| Area | European limit (kilowatt days) | Real-time uptake to date (kilowatt days) | Percentage of effort used to date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VII | 543,366 | 366,937 | 68% |
| V-VI | 702,292 | 483,635 | 69% |
The Western Waters Days at Sea scheme detailed below applies to UK fishing vessels, 15 metre and over in length, fishing for Edible/Brown Crab (Cancer Pagurus) and spider crab (Maja Squinado ) in International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Area VII.
The maximum number of days a vessel can fish for crabs in ICES Area VII is established in the vessel’s fishing licence.
Any days remaining at the end of a management period will not be transferred across management periods.
Days at sea are not transferrable between fishing vessels.
The number of days spent at sea will be monitored for enforcement purposes by MMO/Devolved Administration offices. However, it is your responsibility to monitor your uptake and be aware of how many days you have available. If you wish to check the information held by the MMO on your vessel’s activity you should contact your local MMO coastal office.
It is an offence to exceed the maximum number of days at sea established in your vessel’s fishing licence, and action may be taken in accordance the relevant fisheries administration’s compliance and enforcement strategy.
The effort limit is an annual limit and is set in consultation with the vessels active in the fishery, with the aim of maximising uptake of available effort. For 2018 the annual limit will be reviewed every other month, starting in February, and will be increased if fleet size and activity levels permit.
Days at sea are counted in calendar days (midnight to midnight) or part thereof. For example a fishing trip leaving port at 0200h and returning to port at 0100h the following day counts as two calendar days. In comparison, a fishing trip leaving port at 1000h and returning at 1700h the following day is also counted as 2 calendar days.
Trip data must be recorded in UTC (universal time constant) with no daylight saving adjustment.
Steaming trips are not counted against a vessel’s days at sea providing that no gear is deployed or hauled, no landings are made and vessel activity is declared as ‘CRU – steaming/cruising’ on the electronic logbook.
Time at sea will not count against a vessel’s allocation where it comes to the aid of another vessel in need of emergency assistance or because it is transporting an injured person for emergency medical aid. You must advise your port of administration in such cases.
Any vessel that has exhausted its allocation of days must cease fishing for crabs in Area VII immediately and return to port. The vessel may then undertake other activities.
Western Water scallops
The allocation of days from 00.01 hours on 1 October 2018 to 31 December 2018 is 66 days.
| Area | European limit (kilowatt days) | Real-time uptake to date (kilowatt days) | Percentage of effort used to date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VII | 4,160,619 | 2,863,191 | 69% |
| V-VI | 1,974,425 | 759,507 | 38% |
The Western Waters Days at Sea scheme detailed below applies to UK fishing vessels, 15 metres and over in length, fishing for either king (Pecten Maximus) or queen scallops (Aequipecten opercularis) in ICES Area VII.
Any days remaining at the end of a management period will not be transferred across management periods.
Any days remaining at the end of a management period will not be transferred across management periods.
Days at sea are not transferrable between fishing vessels.
The number of days spent at sea will be monitored for enforcement purposes by MMO/Devolved Administration offices. However, it is your responsibility to monitor your uptake and be aware of how many days you have available. If you wish to check the information held by the MMO on your vessels activity you should contact your local MMO coastal office.
It is an offence to exceed the maximum number of days at sea established in the vessels’ fishing licence and action may be taken in accordance with the relevant fisheries administration’s compliance and enforcement strategy.
Days at sea are counted in calendar days (midnight to midnight) or part thereof. For example a fishing trip leaving port at 0200h and returning to port at 0100h the following day counts as two calendar days. In comparison, a fishing trip leaving port at 1000h and returning at 1700h the following day is also counted as two calendar days.
Trip data must be recorded in UTC (universal time constant) with no daylight saving adjustment.
Steaming trips are not counted against a vessel’s days at sea providing that no gear is deployed or hauled, no landings are made and vessel activity is declared as ‘CRU – steaming/cruising’ on the electronic logbook.
Time at sea will not count against a vessels allocation where it comes to the aid of another vessel in need of emergency assistance or because it is transporting an injured person for emergency medical aid. You must advise your port of administration in such cases.
Any vessel that has exhausted its allocation of days must cease fishing for scallops in Area VII immediately and return to port. The vessel may then undertake other activities.
How to inspect your fishing gear and make sure your time at sea is not counted against your effort
Skippers or owners are required to notify their local coastal office if they intend to go to sea to inspect their fishing gear.
On electronic logbooks, these trips should be coded with a departure message of ‘Other’ (OTH), with a comment stating that you are going to inspect your fishing gear. This will allow MMO to make vessel monitoring system data with gear inspections consistent with one another.
No landings must be made during these trips. This will ensure that we do not include these trips in effort uptake calculations.
Updated: Spreadsheet added
Vessel lists include details of administrative port, home port, port letters and number, vessel name, Registry of Shipping and Seamen number and overall length.
Within the lists there are details of the membership of a Producer Organisation (PO). This relates to those vessels recorded as fishing against the quotas allocated to the PO and are thus managed by the PO. The full membership of a PO can include additional vessels which are associated with a PO for other purposes (e.g. to benefit from local marketing agreements), but whose fishing activity is subject to constraints set by UK fisheries administrations rather than the PO, and thus any PO not involved in directly managing fishing activity is not included.
The spreadsheet below allows the calculation of a vessel’s gross tonnage.
